by Joseph Roth · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423132374
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«Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker» is the short novel by Joseph Roth, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (80 pages, in German).
Andreas Kartak, a Polish vagabond in Paris, receives two hundred francs from a stranger on condition that he return them to the chapel of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. The coincidences that follow offer him hope, but drink prevents him from keeping his promise. A story of poverty, faith and redemption, narrated with Roth's characteristic melancholy.
This work by Joseph Roth, an Austrian writer, originally appeared in 1939, the year of his death, and is the last one he completed.
For readers of Austrian literature, modern classics and short stories with a social background.
Moses Joseph Roth was a Austro-Hungarian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft", a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the 21st century, publications in English of Radetzky March and of collections of his journalism from Berlin and Paris created a revival of interest in Roth.
